ocr: LASCO SOME RESULTS IN A NUISHELL Besides revealing the sizes, velocities and occurrence statistics of coronal mass ejections and providing intormation regarding the physical processes that cause them, LASCO has found more than 60 previously unknown comets orbiting very close to the Sun. The extended solar corona in front of the center of the Milky Way as recorded by the LASCO C3 corona- graph on the 23rd of De cember, 1996.